How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?

For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both.

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and so to his sense of guilt.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

Everybody knows that our cities were built to be destroyed.

Power is the ability to make change.

To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.

Every bit of land is a Holy land, and every drop of water is Holy water, and every single child is a son or a daughter of the one Earth mama, and the one Earth papa.

I think that the Iraqi ground defenses shot down dozens of missiles. We are in the process of counting all these missiles quickly

I once took on the role of the Batman for a commercial about equal pay for women.

Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.

Poetry is a means of redemption.